OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN Thank you! That's JUST the thing I needed to get uber excited about the DIsco.

Also yeah I feel ya about the Excelsior, my Starcrafts Excelsior is due for a repaint for the same reasons. Actually mine is just getting a new ship to call the Excelsior, and the current one is getting turned into a new ship methinks. Ever since I got the NX-2000 Excelsior I've been thinking along those lines.

I'm considering building my Disco as an unmodified, non-spore-drive Crossfield class. I picture that as the way Discovery looked in the very first preview video emerging from a hollow asteroid without the nacelle extensions, with the outer saucer gap filled in, and with Franz Joseph style hull markings.